“Fuel Scarcity Will End By Next Week” – NNPC Promises

Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) has announced that fuel scarcity will end in Lagos and Abuja next week.

Speaking on Wednesday, February 16,Group Managing Director (GMD) of Mele Kyari, apologised to Nigerians over the adulterated petrol, which circulated in several filling stations across the country last week.

The NNPC GMD tendered the apology when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream).

Kyari told the committee that there was no way the NNPC would have known that the imported petrol contained methanol.

He, however, assured that the current fuel scarcity being experienced in parts of the country, especially in Lagos and Abuja, would end by next week.

He said: “For this current situation, I assure you we have taken every necessary step to restore supply into this country. We have placed orders significant enough for us to cross into March, with at least 2.1 billion litres of PMS in our custody.

“The situation you’re seeing today, I can assure you by next week, it will vanish. All things being equal, because of distribution issues that we may not have control over, including the movement of trucks, otherwise we have robust supply arrangement to make sure we exit this issue.”